The four Republican members of the high-profile panel created to investigate the causes of the financial crisis have posted their own views of what happened, a month before the full Commission is set to issue its report to Congress.

Amid reports of a rift within its ranks, four of the 10 members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, vice chairman Bill Thomas and commissioners Keith Hennessey, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Peter Wallison, have released a 9-page “primer” on the causes of the crisis.